The Memory Room: A Novel - Softcover

Rakow, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593760183 ISBN 13: 9781593760182

Verlag: Catapult, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

The novel opens with Barbara, who, after remembering incidents of torture at the hands of her father, has quite literally broken down. Found inside a disabled elevator, she is no longer able to function with her new consciousness of these memories--those which are so resistant to understanding. Confronted with this knowledge of evil, she must begin the painful process of remembering and reconstructing a new whole self.

Helping Barbara to navigate her grief and her memories are her therapist, the Psalms, and most of all, the words of Paul Celan. Paul Celan: 1920-1970, Poet. An eastern European holocaust survivor who wrote haunting poems about the darker spiritual trials of life and relationships that exhibit a compact style that fuses broken words and chopped syntax to produce a stark musicality.

This is a novel about a woman who goes to hell and back. It's a story which affirms the resilience of the human spirit and the healing power of love and faith.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mary Rakow, winner of a 2003 Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship for fiction, has a Masters degree from Harvard University Divinity School and a PhD in Theology from Boston College. A native Californian, she currently lives in Los Angeles. The Memory Room is her first novel.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Catapult
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1593760183
• ISBN 13: 9781593760182
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 524
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